Sujet

'Mars and Venus...', Chelsea, Kensington, London, 1784. Artist: Samuel Collings

Légende

'Mars and Venus...', Chelsea, Kensington, London, 1784. Sir Cecil Wray is standing between a Chelsea Pensioner and a servant-maid. The maid is standing on a paper inscribed 'Tax on servants'. Satire on Wray's unpopular election proposals to abolish Chelsea Hospital and tax employers of maid-servants.

Date

1784

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A94_361

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49,9Mo (2,9Mo) / 42,7cm x 29,3cm / 5041 x 3463 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior building buildings London England people job politics finance occupation aggression attack century profession brush pensioner tax concept outside B&W servant MONOCHROME politician taxation OAP black & white black and white B W 18th century Chelsea Eighteenth Century Kensington and Chelsea statesman Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Chelsea Pensioner register office TGN wooden leg Cecil Wray etching caricature satire portrait Samuel Samuel Collings;Collings Cecil Wray Samuel Collings Sir Cecil Wray Collings Samuel